Student Finance Wales

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Education – in the Senedd at 1:35 pm on 13 December 2017.

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Photo of Mr Neil Hamilton Mr Neil Hamilton UKIP 1:35, 13 December 2017

I'm grateful to the Cabinet Secretary for that reply. Is she aware of problems that have been created for students who want to study postgraduate law degrees at universities like the BPP University in Bristol, where these courses have not been designated for student support? Students have had to defer enrolment to another time. This is very unfair. I know the Cabinet Secretary has been critical of the UK Government over Brexit in one respect, in that she fears that student exchange programmes will suffer as a result. If the result of the Student Loans Company's tardiness in designating suitable courses at English universities is not dealt with, then we're going to face a similar problem within the United Kingdom, and it would be quite wrong for students not to be able to go to the university of their choice for the course that they want and need for their future professional lives simply on grounds that the Student Loans Company is, in effect, stopping them from using the freedoms that everybody else has within Wales.